Very cool paper. But I couldn't understand the most important point. Can anyone help? When Jaynes says that (15) is the correct factorization instead of Bell's (14), he gives up something, and I don't understand what it is. What are the spooky conclusions that mainstream physicists wanted to avoid by working with (14) instead of (15)? I understand Jaynes' point about Bell's hidden assumptions (1) (bottom of page 12), and I agree with it. But I don't understand what he says about hidden assumption (2).